What's your all-time most fav book?

[diamond lil]

People talking about the Day of the Triffids got me thinking about all the old great books I read in the past.
I loved The Midwich Cuckoos - filmed as Village of the Damned. All the women in a small village got preg at the same time and gave birth to strange babies with golden eyes....who could communicate with each other by telepathy I loved that book.
Also this one totally gave me the creeps and still can - http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/joh ... wn-hay.htm
The Kraken Wakes was ok, not scarey but shows how civilisation gradually falls apart without the seas.
I could go on and on and on But what books did you love when you were younger and can't quite forget ?

[Red Doe]

Oh, got too many favourites to name just one!
But, off the top of me head...
The Lord Of The Rings series.
Dying Of The Light by George R R Martin.
Many of my `housewifey` books but especially The Ministry of Food by Jane Fearnley Whittingstall.
And a book called The Magic Goes Away by Larry Niven
Ealdwood by CJ Cherryh.

[Dutchie Delta]

Lots by Terry Pratchett but survivalist book:
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer's_Hammer

[diamond lil]

Not read that one yet but its on my wee list DD. Doesn't have to be survival-related, just books that people love. Maybe like "Desert Island Discs" for TEOCAWKI Everybody tells me I'd love Pratchett because I love Tom Sharpe (Wilt!! ) but somehow I have never read him.

[diamond lil]

Just thinking - if i posted this on the American forums we'd get about 900 posts all saying THE BIBLE

[itsybitsy]

Just thinking - if i posted this on the American forums we'd get about 900 posts all saying THE BIBLE

900? More like 9000...

Regarding fave books - I have lots and lots as I love to read. BUT - if you twisted my arm, I'd have to say The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I just love it and have read it three or four times now, but I never get tired of it.

[diamond lil]

I like mainly supernatural horror. (not yer average wee Scots granny eh ) My books are
The Shee by Joe Donnelly - Archeologists in the far west of Ireland are digging a tomb...and end up wishing they hadnt
Burial by Graham Masterton - native american vengeance and magic .
Still Life by Joe Donnelly - the wee boy looking out of his attic bedroom window at night in a lonely cottage in the Scottish Highlands who keeps trying to tell his parents that the trees in the wood are moving closer to the house....
And anything by F. Paul Wilson.

[Red Doe]

Oh, I love The Shee, have you read Shrike by him too Lil?
Also like The Talisman, and The Stand (which also has a slight survival flavour )

[diamond lil]

Got Shrike too, magic books

[lisaloolibell]

Children of the Dust, its actually aimed at teenagers but I couldnt put it down. Its about a young girl and her family coping in the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the UK.